Matt Gunterman October 25th, 2007

The young generation doesn’t like the GOP. Who can blame them? They see right through the party’s demagoguery on race, immigration, sexuality, religion, and health care. The Republicans aren’t even pretending to be building a vision of tomorrow for their party’s and our own future. They’re simply desperately trying to hold onto the power that they have. There’s no future for the GOP, and many Republicans believe that fact literally because they believe our nation should be governed as if the only relevant future event is the second coming of Jesus.

Those last people are fundamentalist Christians, and I think we’re all better off just admitting that they are crazy. Fundamentalist Christians are crazy. Loony. Dangerous. Freakishly churlish. A fierce detriment to American society.

There’s no way around it. We’re seeing the evidence and manifestation of it today.

Anyway, how bad are things for the Republican party today?

Check this out from Josh Marshall at Talking Points Memo:

The Younger Set

You’ve probably seen how Stephen Colbert is running for president. You may even have seen this Rasmussen poll that has Colbert pulling down a respectable 13% of the vote in a hypothetical Rudy-Hillary match-up.

But look at this paragraph down into Rasmussen’s write-up (italics in the original) …

Colbert does particularly well with the younger voters most likely to be watching his show and therefore most aware of his myriad presidential-like qualities. In the match-up with Giuliani and Clinton, Colbert draws 28% of likely voters aged 18-29. He draws 31% of that cohort when his foes are Thompson and Clinton. In both match-ups, Colbert has more support with young voters than the GOP candidate.

There’s something appropriate in this. Americans in their twenties would prefer a normal person pretending to be a Republican buffoon than the real thing.

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• Christian Fundamentalism , Religion , Religious Fanaticism , Republican Party Decline
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